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This
site has been designed to provide resource information
and continuing education about rare infections and potential
bioterrorist agents for several reasons:
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There is an emerging need to educate medical professionals
to respond rapidly and efficiently in the event of
a bioterrorist attack or disease outbreak.
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If a bioterrorist attack or disease outbreak were
to occur today, the consequences would be devastating.
- Identifying
any outbreak as near to the index case as possible
can reduce the impact of the outbreak.
- Preparation
leading to "awareness" among healthcare providers
has the potential of making an enormous difference
in outcome following one of these events.
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Most of the preparation for a BT attack is also applicable
to any public health disaster or disease outbreak.
This
project is supported by
The development of the Web site and training modules was originally funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, for public health preparedness efforts under Contract No. 290-00-0022.
Original AHRQ Project
contributors are:
Primary
contributors
- Linda
Casebeer, PhD
- Sarah
Nafziger, MD
- Emily
Heck, BA
- Sreedhar
Katta, MS
- Steve
Baldwin, MD
- Kevin
Moye, MD
- David Freedman, MD
- Erica
Pryor, RN, PhD
- David
Franz, DVM, PhD
Secondary contributors
- Ken
Alibek, MD, PhD, D. Sc.
- Samuel
Brown, Jr., Ed.D.
- Steven
M. Becker, PhD
- Jeffrey
Burkhardt, PhD
- Daniel
Dire, MD
- Boni
Elewski, MD
- Edward
Hook, MD
- Camille
Filoromo, RN, MEd
- Jessica
Jones, MD
- David
Macrina, PhD
- Michael
Maetz, VMD, MPH
- Russell
McClinton, Virturuss Inter@ctive, LLC
- Helmuth
Orthner, PhD
- Guillermo
Pierluisi, MD, MPH
- David
Pigott, MD
- Margaret
Tresler, MPH
- Muffarah
Jahangeer, MS
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